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Business tycoon Donald Trump shared his views on ISIS, Obamacare, and immigration at CPAC 2015, and talked about a possible presidential run in 2016._  by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Feb 27, 2015 7:25 PM UTC  by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Feb 27, 2015 7:25 PM UTC Business tycoon Donald Trump shared his views on ISIS, Obamacare, and immigration at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, and talked about a possible presidential run in 2016. Watch #RealTIME to see what he said, and [read more here](http://time.com/3722847/donald-trump-president/). ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Where are you on the scale in terms of where you think you are in deciding to run? One to a hundred I would say 75 and 80. I am really inclined, I want to do it so badly, I'm looking at it very seriously. I don't want what happened to Mitt Romney to happen again, because that was a tremendous blow. For this country. As far as our borders are concerned we need strong borders. We need a wall If I run, I will tell you the king of building buildings, the king of building walls, nobody can build them like Trump. That I can promise ya. [ APPLAUSE ] Nobody if I decide to run and win. Nobody would be tougher than Donald Trump. Nobody. You know, a year ago you wouldn't have said it and nobody would have liked it, now everybody likes it, you may have to have some boots on the ground for a period of time until you get rid of the cancer. 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